{"id":1986125,"date":"2023-07-30T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-one-of-historys-greatest-senators-puts-todays-republican-frauds-to-shame\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:09:59","slug":"op-ed-one-of-historys-greatest-senators-puts-todays-republican-frauds-to-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-one-of-historys-greatest-senators-puts-todays-republican-frauds-to-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Legendary Senator Shames Today&#8217;s GOP Frauds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fop-ed-one-of-historys-greatest-senators-puts-todays-republican-frauds-to-shame%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Op-Ed: One \u2063of History&#8217;s Greatest Senators Puts Today&#8217;s \u200cRepublican Frauds \u200cto Shame<\/h2>\n<p>Contrary to\u200c popular belief, the\u2064 biggest\u200c fraud in American politics is not Rep. George Santos. Nor \u200cis \u200cit the not-so-Native \u2062American Sen. \u2064Elizabeth Warren. Nor is it \u2063Sen. Richard \u2062\u201cStolen Valor\u201d Blumenthal.<\/p>\n<p>It is not even President Joe Biden, whose fabulism stretches so far \u200bback that Johnny Carson \u200djoked about it.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest\u200d frauds in American politics are \u200cthe 27 \u200b\u201cRepublican\u201d members\u200b of Congress who\u2064 voted\u200b for the obscene $1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-18-republicans-who-just-screwed-over-america-by-supporting-the-mcconnell-schumer-1-7-trillion-spending-bill\/\" title=\"Here Are The 18 Republicans Who Just Screwed Over America By Supporting The McConnell-Schumer .7 Trillion Spending Bill\">66 trillion omnibus spending bill<\/a> last December, 16 of whom still \u201cserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In stark \u2064contrast \u200bto their example is the memory of <\/p>\n<h3>Sen. Robert A. Taft<\/h3>\n<p>, who \u2064died 70 years \u2062ago on\u200d July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Among the\u2064 few outstanding American statesmen and the fewer whose greatness was contemporaneously acknowledged, Taft\u2019s destiny seemed preordained. \u2064First in his class in high school,\u200c college (Yale) and law school (Harvard), Taft was\u2063 the scion of a great American political dynasty and the son of the only \u2062man to hold the offices\u2064 of U.S. president and chief \u200bjustice of the \u200bU.S. \u200cSupreme\u200d Court.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving no branch of\u2062 government unmastered\u2064 by his family, Taft scaled \u2062the legislative ladder. In the Ohio\u2062 Legislature, he led\u2063 efforts \u2062to \u2062reform the state\u2019s \u200bantiquated tax code, opposed \u2064prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan, and rose\u200d to become speaker of the \u2062lower house before\u2063 graduating to the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>But it was as a U.S. senator that Taft became\u200d one for the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Elected in 1938, Taft immediately became renowned for his intelligence, parliamentary skill, and principled opposition to \u2063government \u2063intervention at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Impervious to \u2062interest\u200b groups, Taft never broke an agreement,\u200b especially with his constituents. He was always \u200bthe man they \u200dvoted \u200bfor. Taft\u200c eschewed political\u200d deception and courageously adhered to his principles,\u2062 garnering universal respect.<\/p>\n<p>Senate chronicler \u200dAllen Drury called Taft one of the Senate\u2019s \u200c\u201cstrongest and ablest men\u201d and modeled on Taft the virtuous\u2062 lawmakers in his \u200dPulitzer Prize-winning novel \u201cAdvise and Consent\u201d (1959).<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off winning\u200c the 1948 World Series, liberal baseball owner Bill Veeck was asked to run against Taft in 1950.\u2063 Veeck declined out of his admiration for the senator, describing him as\u200d \u201cone guy who knew\u2063 how to \u2064say\u2063 no, a rare talent in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And\u2062 John F. Kennedy, who served briefly with Taft on the Senate Labor Committee, included \u200chim as the final senator profiled in his Pulitzer Prize-winning history \u201cProfiles in Courage\u201d (1956).<\/p>\n<p>Highlighted by Kennedy was Taft\u2019s principled opposition to the Nuremberg trials as an ex post \u200cfacto expression of revenge by the victorious Allies. Taft\u2019s stance netted\u2064 no votes and may have even\u2062 cost him the 1948 GOP presidential nomination, but such was Taft\u2019s adamantine \u200cintegrity. His opposition \u2062to the\u2064 internment \u2063of \u2063Japanese-Americans also won him few plaudits.<\/p>\n<p>Yet seven decades after his death, Taft\u2019s legacy looms large.<\/p>\n<p>Making the most of the\u200c few years of Republican control\u2064 of the\u200c Senate during his \u200ctenure, Taft expertly won such bipartisan support\u200c for his\u2062 crowning legislative achievement that when it was vetoed by President Harry Truman, Congress overrode the veto. Today, the Taft-Hartley \u200bAct remains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-one-of-historys-greatest-senators-puts-todays-republican-frauds-to-shame\/\" title=\"Op-Ed: Legendary Senator Shames Today's GOP Frauds\">basic federal \u200clabor \u2063law<\/a>. \u2062A key provision allows states to adopt \u2062the \u201cright to work\u201d\u2064 laws that\u200d are in force in a majority of states, including such labor union strongholds as West Virginia and, until this year, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>But nowhere has \u200cTaftian\u2062 thinking been more relevant than where it has been most sorely missed \u2014 post-Cold War American \u200cforeign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Taft opposed\u200c American \u200dparticipation in\u2062 the UN \u2062and NATO and counseled against American involvement in land wars in both Asia and Europe. If the reasons for Taft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elliott-abrams-launches-group-to-chart-gop-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"Elliott Abrams Launches Group to Chart GOP Foreign Policy\">foreign policy views<\/a> were not obvious then,\u2062 they are now.<\/p>\n<p>One purported admirer of Taft\u2019s was\u200b Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who \u2064went so far as to occupy Taft\u2019s Capitol Hill offices and trade desks with Sen. Al Franken on \u2064the Senate floor so he could have the one that belonged to\u2063 Taft.\u2063 Unfortunately, that is where the similarities end.<\/p>\n<p>Not \u2063only did Portman vote for \u200bthe omnibus bill on\u2063 his way\u2062 out the door, but voters could not keep\u200d track \u2064of his vacillating positions. During his career \u200cin Congress, \u200cPortman supported a \u2062federal definition of \u200cmarriage, \u200bthen took the position that\u2063 marriage should be defined \u200dby the states, then re-endorsed a federal definition of marriage, albeit a different definition\u2063 than the\u200c one he\u200d started with.<\/p>\n<p>It is safe to assume that\u200d there \u2063will be no Capitol Hill monuments to Portman like the monument and carillon that stand in\u200b Taft\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after his death,\u200c a Senate committee named Taft one of the five greatest\u200b senators \u2063in history. Seventy years later, that assessment still holds.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-one-historys-greatest-senators-puts-todays-republican-frauds-shame\/\">Op-Ed: One of History&#8217;s Greatest Senators Puts\u200d Today&#8217;s\u2062 Republican Frauds\u2064 to Shame<\/a> appeared first on \u2063 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u2063Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular belief, Rep. George Santos, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, and even President Joe Biden are not the biggest frauds in American politics. The true culprits remain unidentified, as their deceit surpasses all others, even Johnny Carson&#8217;s jokes about Biden&#8217;s fabulism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2230,"featured_media":1986126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}